News from the CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk

The CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk is available to assist the European Biological and Medical Research Infrastructures with collaboration with industry and technology transfer. The infrastructures have free and easy access to real-time legal support and partnering advice from a team of innovation specialists. The Innovation Office also aims to be a central expertise centre providing access to essential tools and resources for collaboration such as guidelines on Intellectual Property Rights, Open Innovation, or legal templates.

Legal templates available on the CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk portal

Two new documents are available at the Innovation Helpdesk:

• Collaboration Agreement Template Tool with Commentary
• A Tool to Design a Core Material Transfer Agreement

Workshop: Best practices in Public-private collaborations

The CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk team in conjunction with the EATRIS Slovenia National Node and the University of Ljubljana is organizing a best practice workshop on the theme of public-private collaboration on 12-13 December 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This 2-day event will focus on all relevant aspects of setting up such collaborations, from initial contacts through planning and negotiation to completion of legal agreements and project implementation. In addition to plenary lectures covering various aspects, there will be a use case for participants to work on in teams.

Registration for the workshop is possible here. The draft agenda can be found here.